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Tagmee: Adding Functions and Features Left And Right

When we last took a look at Tagmee, we surmised that it was a great start, but had a little bit of work to go before it could become a full-fledged player as a decent replacement tool in the photo-sharing space. Kristen Nicole identified a number of key areas we believed were important for them to address as they grew as a community:

I don't mean that Tagmee needs to jump all over the OpenSocial movement, though that wouldn't be a bad idea. But even for the messaging option, it's only your images that are available for sharing, and they can only be shared with other Tagmee users. There are no download options, licensing and copyright choices, sharing tools for sending images via email to friends or placed on another website using widgets.

They've made an improvement in the area of sharing, now - you can share to users outside of the system with the usage of their email function. Personally, I think this area could be vastly improved with the addition of a widget like ShareThis and implementing some verbage from the Creative Commons site, but those are just my observations.

That doesn't diminish the not-insignificant additions that Tagmee has been working on, adding some functionality not even available at their giant competitor Flickr, like 'Tag Previews', the ability for users to click on the drop-down arrowto see some other photos with the same tag.

Another feature they've added that will grow the community in what I believe will be a valuable way is to focus on one of their strengths, their "digg-like popular" and "almost popular" sections of the site, which are now featured on the front page. The image dispalays are now dynamic, and show recently like photos, which will give those of us who aren't chronic picture clickers something to do on the photo sharing site. It also has the added benefit of showcasing the site's best content up front, which gave me the impression that this site had nothing but top notch photography going on (which isn't completely true, but isn't far off - quite a few gifted photogs in the community).

They've also added a starring function, similar to what you'll find in Picasa (but not, incidentally, in Flickr), allowing you to easily find and showcase your better photographs in your profile.

Another addition is a "people who liked this also liked…" drop down. This also works to bring the best photos to the forefront. This feature is actually quite useful and so transparent that I didn't notice it's function until after I read the press information sent to us by the company. It feels like it belongs, and thus really creates some value for the site.

Flickr may not have to worry about Tagmee taking out their business any time soon, but they definitely could take a few cues from Tagmee on the next set of features they roll out.

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